Preferred term

Pelican

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n. From the post-classical Latin "pelicanus" "pelecanus" "pellicanus". The representation of any of various large, gregarious, fish-eating waterbirds constituting the family Pelecanidae and genus Pelecanus, typically with mainly white or grey plumage, and having a long hooked bill with a greatly distensible pouch hanging below it, used to scoop up fish. In Christianity it has a powerful sense with reference to the fable that the pelican revives or feeds its young with its own blood, understood as a figuration of Christ as reviver of the dead in spirit by his blood.

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